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June Knight

June Knight

Born: 1913-01-22 • Los Angeles, California, USA

June Knight (born Margaret Rose Valliquietto) was an American Broadway and film actress and singer. Due to infantile paralysis, she was unable to walk until she was five years old, but just five years later, she started to perform songs and dance publicly.

Dancer John Holland changed her name to June Knight when she became his partner, assigning her the same name as that of his previous partner. That change led to a court case in 1940, when the actress June Knight filed suit against the original dancer with that name. The actress said that she had made the name famous and that the dancer had previously agreed to stop using that name.

At age 19, she appeared in the last Ziegfeld Follies show, Hot-Cha!. She was featured in four other Broadway shows, Take A Chance, Jubilee (where she introduced the Cole Porter classic "Begin the Beguine"), The Would-Be Gentleman (her only non-musical) and Sweethearts.

She also had a short-lived film career, appearing in 12 films from 1930 to 1940, most notably in Broadway Melody of 1936, in which she sang the hit song "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" with co-star Robert Taylor.

Filmography
That's Entertainment, Part II poster
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 • (archive footage)
The House Across the Bay poster
The House Across the Bay
1940 • Bebe
Vacation from Love poster
Vacation from Love
1938 • Flo Heath
Break the News poster
Break the News
1938 • Grace Gatwick
The Lilac Domino poster
The Lilac Domino
1937 • Shari de Gonda
Broadway Melody of 1936 poster
Broadway Melody of 1936
1935 • Lillian Brent
Redheads on Parade poster
Redheads on Parade
1935 • Chorus Redhead (uncredited)
Wake Up and Dream poster
Wake Up and Dream
1934 • Toby Brown
Gift of Gab poster
Gift of Gab
1934 • Lottie Von Pepper
Cross Country Cruise poster
Cross Country Cruise
1934 • Sue Fleming
No Image
Take a Chance
1933 • Toni Ray
Ladies Must Love poster
Ladies Must Love
1933 • Jeannie Marlow
Madam Satan poster
Madam Satan
1930 • Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)